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Facsimile of Dodekachordon, Glareanus, p 442. In music, a prolation canon (also called a mensuration canon or proportional canon) is a type of canon, a musical composition wherein the main melody is accompanied by one or more imitations of that melody in other voices.
[clarification needed] The cancrizans, and often the mensuration canon, take exception to the rule that the follower must start later than the leader; that is, in a typical canon, a follower cannot come before the leader (for then the labels 'leader' and 'follower' should be reversed) or at the same time as the leader (for then two lines ...
Most of the movements feature pairs of mensuration canons. The interval separating the two voices in each canon grows successively in each consecutive movement, beginning at the unison, proceeding to the second, then the third, and so forth, reaching the octave at the "Osanna" section in the Sanctus. The four voices each sing in a different ...
Musical Time: Mensuration & Prolation from Belle Voce Chicago (YouTube video) Mensuration - an introduction by Alain Naigeon; GB-Ob MS. Canon. Misc. 213 from DIAMM; the top of p.135 illustrates the symbol used to denote the prolation and tempus of O dolce conpagno se tu voy cantare by the Italian dancing master Domenico da Ferrara
Instead of being based on a fixed cantus firmus, each movement is a mensuration canon, with the interval of imitation expanding from the unison to the octave during the course of the mass (Leeman Perkins called this "the most extraordinary contrapuntal achievement of the 15th century", and compared it in scope and execution with the Goldberg ...
The canon is also restricted to the highest voice, and the pitch interval between the voices is fixed while the temporal interval varies between one and three breves depending on the mensuration. The two free voices generally do not participate in the imitation. [ 2 ]
“The guy is built like a factory, can run the ball well, has a canon for an arm, can launch the ball 60 yards downfield whenever he needs to,” safety Justin Reid said.
The opening Kyrie of Josquin's mass contains consecutive mensuration canons based on each phrase of the L'homme armé tune, with the tenor leading each and the other voices entering in turn. [7] The second of the three of Agnus Dei sections is another well-known mensuration canon (see example); this particular canon was famous in the sixteenth ...